Virginia Tech Shooting - Condolonces

BroSpence wrote: VA Tech handled this situation as badly as possible.

I can only wonder how this will hurt their recruiting

I'm still very sad for the victims and their families but I'm also thinking about those VT students and professors. Two or three days won't be enough to forget all the events. The ambient there will remain suffocating for months, maybe years, I think.

Great, Fox had Jack Thompson on in an interview and blamed videogames for this tragic incident. Thompson was labeled as an expert in school shootings. Thanks Fox for politicizing the shootings so fast.

 Disgusting...they're not even done sorting through the whole thing and the media is already playing on it.

I have never been south of Delaware, but I realized today just how different the scope of my world seems now that I'm in college.  I know people from everywhere.  I know people from Virginia.  A woman with whom I've been in communication with since we were both prospective students interested in the same school (we both go here now) found out this evening that one of her friends was killed.  It shouldn't seem any more horrific because someone I know lost a friend than it otherwise would, because this is unbelievably horrible, but it somehow it does.

And life goes on, and the midterm I can't concentrate on studying for anymore is still happening tomorrow, and it's all so bizarre.

Just terrible.


I will say that the VT students I've seen today are some of the most well-spoken, level-headed, brave young people I've ever witnessed

Hey everyone.

Thanks for the support I've received from the PA community today.  It's been really great to have a place where I could come and vent when I needed to.  I've received a number of thoughtful messages from folks here and it's really made things easier to deal with.

Anyway, here's my latest update:

My close friend, who is also the chief engineer of the campus radio station where I work, was wounded twice in his leg, and one of the bullets split his Femural Artery, which is usually a pretty bad condition.  He is fine and stable now at the hospital and we'll be able to visit him tomorrow. 

I had another friend, who was one of the resident advisors killed in the first round of shootings.  Admittedly, I didn't know him very well, and he was more of an acquaintance through other friends, but it is still tragic and he will be missed by a lot of people.

For now, I am going to be at the radio station all night preparing for a round of mainstream media interviews early in the morning.  This is because the local NPR affiliate (which is run by VT administration) refused to make any comments to media and deferred all traffic to us, a tiny student-run station.

Thanks again to everyone for their support, I'll check in again as soon as I can.

This is really terrible and senseless. I feel so sorry for all the families and friends of the victims.

Wow.... Sorry to hear about your friends Chris. I can't even imagine what you must be going through right now. I'm so glad that you're OK though.

This is just so utterly depressing. Don't know what to say...

Just a reminder, people - can we keep the discussions here strictly on thread please? Discussions re gun control & generalisations re the state of society are subjects for a different thread.

Thanks

Jim